[SGVHAK] Using JMRI or CMRI to access hundreds of I/O lines

[Claude Felizardo]

Wow, you got my attention.  I'll have to stop by one of these days.  The
web site says to call, who do I ask for?

How does this compare to the CMRI modules?

Claude



On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, David Flynn <dflynn at oxfordvue.com> wrote:

> You should visit the HP (HighlandPacificRR.com) on Wednesday evening and
> look a what I use.  I have 128 bit I/O cards that connect to a PIC board
> with ethernet.
>
> http://www.traincircuits.com/iocards.html
>
> Dave Flynn
> Oxford V.U.E., Inc.
> office (626) 256-6557
> cell (626) 893-6654
> dflynn at oxfordvue.com
>
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Anyone on list using JMRI or CMRI for model railroading or any thoughts on
> being able to access hundreds of I/O lines?  I need to be able to read
> and write to a crazy number of I/O lines for doing block detection, block
> control, switches, signal lights, track configuration for switch yards and
> routes, etc.
>
> I've used JMRI for controlling trains but not for accessories.  DCC can
> get rather expensive so our club is looking at using CMRI interface modules
> as the prices can be as low as less than a dollar per IO line with DIY kits
> and that's buffered.
>
> For programming I'm not all that keen on using Basic as described in the
> original CMRI implementation and while the GUI based programs that are part
> of JMRI might work for some of the high level features like programming
> engines or track configuration I don't want a frozen GUI to cause a train
> to derail or worse collide so I'm thinking of a hybrid approach.  One or
> more arduino's or possibly Raspberry Pi's for the low level functions like
> signal lighting, crossing gates and possibly setup track control.  Then run
> JMRI on a laptop or possibly Raspberry Pi as well, for high level functions
> like Central Traffic Control for routing, etc.
>
> Claude
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sgvhak.net/pipermail/hak/attachments/20130607/55558a88/attachment.html>